"Les Miserables" will kick off the Signature Series of Orlando Shakespeare Theater's 2014-15 season, theater officials announced Tuesday.
The musical's first Orlando-based production will open Sept. 12 and will be the Shakes' largest single...

The label long ago coined for those who can act, sing and dance was "triple threat." But there aren't many of those folks working in the movies these days. Hugh Jackman is one. And whenever he gets nostalgic for Hollywood's "Golden...

Murder is often messy. The same holds true for comedy.
And so it is with the second production from Thriller Theater, "The Centerpiece," which opened Friday night.
Perhaps surprisingly, given the troupe's name, it's not a thriller at all —...

Neflix is reportedly interested in acquiring an American version of "House of Cards" from director David Fincher ("The Social Network," "Zodiac") and star Kevin Spacey. I'm sure that would be a big deal for Netflix, but it makes me wonder: Why fiddle with a c

When last we heard from Russell Crowe, he was dealing with the thin box office on his better-than-average prison escape thriller “The Next Three Days” and urging fans to write in to 20th Century Fox so that he could do another “Master & C

My wife and I just caught “Proof of Life,” the movie that seemed to signal Meg Ryan's downfall, the other night. That's the one that came out as her marriage to Dennis Quaid was ending. He'd cheated for years and had substance abuse problems, Meg h

Russell Crowe has joined the cast of Zack Snyder's “Superman” reboot. He'll play the babe of steel's Kryptonian pop, according to reports. So this is what it's come to, for Crowe. A big payday, a small part that Marlon Brando once played, signifyin

With Diane Lane and Kevin Costner perfectly cast as Superman's Earth parents, the Kents, and Russell Crowe as his Krypton dad, who is missing? The Man of Steel's Mom, of course. Zack Snyder supposedly wants Julia Ormond for the role. She had a run of big roles

There's all this discussion, as indeed there should be, that superhero movies have reached their saturation point. That “Captain America,” the fourth film in the genre to open in the past three months, may be a superhero too far. That maybe Hollywo

Marky Mark is busy busy these days, lining up lots of work in light of his Oscar nomination from “The Fighter.” There's a comic book adaptation that David O. Russell has been attached to direct, “2 Guns,” that has Wahlberg in talks It's

The Russell Crowe rumors attaching him to the big screen version of the stage musical “Les Miserables,” based on the Victor Hugo novel, turn out to be true. Paul Bettany may have been mentioned as the obsessed Inspector Javert at one time, but it w

Hugh Jackman and I chatted, at length, about his new robot boxing picture, “Real Steel” last weekend, a film which had him interacting with real and digital robots, and as in that boxing classic, ‘The Champ,' interacting with a real cute kid.

Russell Crowe's been filling his dance card, these past few months, scrambling to sign onto projects that will put him back at the top of Hollywood's A-List. He's doing “Les Miz” with Hugh Jackman. And now he's on board a detective thriller titled

Monday is a night for guest stars, one of the benefits of still being in the February sweeps. (The ratings period ends Wednesday.) Consider: Missi Pyle plays Caroline's mean Aunt Charity on “2 Broke Girls” at 9 on CBS. Our heroines need Charity's b

How to hold the Oscar audience to the end? The ABC telecast will feature Tony-winner Kristin Chenoweth and host Seth MacFarlane in a show-closing musical performance. The performance will be in keeping with the telecast's theme of saluting music in the movie

As dense as a Watergate era newspaper and as immediate as a blog, State of Play is an absolutely riveting state-of-the-art "big conspiracy" thriller. It's an often brilliant collision of political scandal, murder, a privatizing military and...

Orlando-based Ripley's Entertainment has put out a call for celebrity-based oddities to put in its Hollywood Odditorium, which will undergo a renovation this winter. It's particularly interested in "three-dimensional sculptural creations,"...

Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe will have opening night all to themselves at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Their Robin Hood is the opening night film. That could be a good thing, or a bad one. Hope it's up to snuff.

It didn't earn much of a release, and I've never read any of the back story behind Tenderness, an odd but effective thriller in which Russell Crowe took a big supporting role in. It's a lot indier than we think of Russell Crowe being these days. The part, that